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Book Review Of Faiths Of The Founding Fathers, Davison M. Douglas
Book Review Of Faiths Of The Founding Fathers, Davison M. Douglas
Davison M. Douglas
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Review Of Piety And Responsibility: Patterns Of Unity In Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, And Vedanta Decika, Hugh Nicholson
Review Of Piety And Responsibility: Patterns Of Unity In Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, And Vedanta Decika, Hugh Nicholson
Hugh Nicholson
The article reviews the book Piety and Responsibility: Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika by John Sheveland.
The Tapestry Of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society And Ideology [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
The Tapestry Of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society And Ideology [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
Ruben R Dupertuis
In this book Vernon Robbins, Professor of Religion at Emory University, provides the most in-depth and systematic discussion to date of the method of Biblical interpretation known as socio-rhetorical criticism, a method he has been developing through numerous articles and books since the publication of Jesus the Teacher: A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of Mark in 1984. It should be noted that his Exploring the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation, a book similar to the one being reviewed, also appeared in 1996. Although both books contain a very similar outline, Exploring the Texture of Texts is intended to …
The Sex Lives Of Saints: An Erotics Of Ancient Hagiography [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
The Sex Lives Of Saints: An Erotics Of Ancient Hagiography [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
Ruben R Dupertuis
In the difficult yet rewarding book Burrus offers “countererotic” readings of fourth- and fifth-century CE hagiographies in which she challenges understandings that take ascetic lives of saints as sublimating sexual desire; rather, Burrus reads these texts as the site of an “exuberant eroticism” that constantly relocates and displaces erotic desire. After an introductory chapter, Burrus first focuses on Jerome’s “queer” Lives of Paul, Malchus, and Hilarion. A second chapter treats the eroticized lives of three women: Jerome’s friend Paula, Gregory of Nyssa’s sister Macrina, and Augustine’s mother, Monica. A third chapter focuses on several treatments of Martin of Tours in …
The Harpercollins Visual Guide To The New Testament: What Archaeology Reveals About The First Christians [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
The Harpercollins Visual Guide To The New Testament: What Archaeology Reveals About The First Christians [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
Ruben R Dupertuis
Jonathan Reed begins the first chapter of The HarperCollins Visual Guide to the New Testament with the assertion that "archaeology is imperative for the study of the New Testament." This much most students of the New Testament and early Christian literature would grant. But how and to what degree is archaeology important to biblical studies is less clear and can be at times a contentious issue. The expectation that archaeology should provide proof of the historical reliability of the New Testament has for decades sent many a would-be Indiana Jones off in search of this or that biblical site with …
The Reception Of Luke And Acts In The Period Before Irenaeus [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
The Reception Of Luke And Acts In The Period Before Irenaeus [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
Ruben R Dupertuis
In this book, a revision of the author's 2001 Oxford dissertation, Andrew Gregory has set for himself the daunting task of determining when we can definitively say that the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are being used by later Christian authors. The greatest contribution of this book is that it treats in one study a broad range of texts and scholarly discussion on this question–according to the author, the first time this has been done.
Memory, Tradition And Text: Uses Of The Past In Early Christianity [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
Memory, Tradition And Text: Uses Of The Past In Early Christianity [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
Ruben R Dupertuis
The aim of this collection of essays is, at least in part, to remedy the lack of attention that studies of early Christianity have paid to recent developments, in the fields of sociology and anthropology, in the study of memory. An excellent introductory survey by Alan Kirk of recent developments in memory studies is followed by eleven essays applying some aspect of the approach to various texts or problems in the study of early Christianity, and then by responses by Werner Kelber and Barry Schwartz. While the various contributions interact in different ways with the relevant theories and models, all …
Paul The Reluctant Witness: Power And Weakness In Luke's Portrayal, Rubén R. Dupertuis
Paul The Reluctant Witness: Power And Weakness In Luke's Portrayal, Rubén R. Dupertuis
Ruben R Dupertuis
That the Acts of the Apostles includes three slightly different accounts of Paul's Damascus road encounter with Jesus has long presented a challenge to interpreters. In this book Blake Shipp seeks to understand the function of the three accounts in Acts 9, 22, and 26 within the larger narrative sweep of Acts by means of a rhetorical analysis. Critical of what he calls the chaotic state of current rhetorical criticism, Shipp also proposes guidelines for the application of rhetorical analysis of the New Testament, something he terms a "literary-rhetorical" method. The bulk of Shipp's analysis of Acts consists of the …
Lost Christianities: The Battles For Scripture And The Faiths We Never Knew [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
Lost Christianities: The Battles For Scripture And The Faiths We Never Knew [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
Ruben R Dupertuis
This book is an introduction to the basic content of non-canonical early Christian texts, exploring them both as evidence for the diversity of early Christianity and for what they can say about the formation of the New Testament canon. It is divided into three sections. The first uses the concept of forgery to introduce a number of important extra-canonical texts (including Gospel of Peter, the Acts of Paul and Thecla, the Coptic Gospel of Thomas, and the Secret Gospel of Mark). The second section takes a closer look at some of the different forms of Christianity …
An Ecstasy Of Folly: Prophecy And Authority In Early Christianity [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
An Ecstasy Of Folly: Prophecy And Authority In Early Christianity [Review], Rubén R. Dupertuis
Ruben R Dupertuis
Nasrallah’s book is a valuable contribution to the study of prophecy and ecstatic manifestations in early Christianity, for its reading of representative Christian texts within the larger context of debates about such phenomena in the Greco-Roman world, and for viewing the materials through the lens of rhetorical criticism. Nasrallah focuses on three texts or authors: Paul’s discussion of the gifts of the Spirit in 1 Corinthians, Tertullian’s defense of prophecy in De anima and related texts, and the Anti-Phrygian source, Nasrallah’s name for the late second—early-third-century source probably embedded in Epiphanius’ Panarion. Nasrallah argues that taxonomies of forms of …
Review Of "Thinking Christ: Christology And Contemporary Critics", Brent A. R. Hege
Review Of "Thinking Christ: Christology And Contemporary Critics", Brent A. R. Hege
Brent A. R. Hege
A review of Thinking Christ: Christology and Contemporary Critics by Jane Barter Moulaison.
Review Of "Thinking With The Church: Essays In Historical Theology", Brent A. R. Hege
Review Of "Thinking With The Church: Essays In Historical Theology", Brent A. R. Hege
Brent A. R. Hege
A review of "Thinking with the Church: Essays in Historical Theology" by B. A. Gerrish.
Review Of "An Introduction To Christian Theology", Brent A. R. Hege
Review Of "An Introduction To Christian Theology", Brent A. R. Hege
Brent A. R. Hege
A review of "An Introduction to Christian Theology" by Richard J. Plantinga, Thomas R. Thompson, and Matthew D. Lundberg.
Review Of "What’S Wrong With Sin? Sin In Individual And Social Perspective From Schleiermacher To Theologies Of Liberation", Brent A. R. Hege
Review Of "What’S Wrong With Sin? Sin In Individual And Social Perspective From Schleiermacher To Theologies Of Liberation", Brent A. R. Hege
Brent A. R. Hege
A review of "What’s Wrong with Sin? Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to Theologies of Liberation" by Derek R. Nelson.
Review Of "The Church Event: Call And Challenge Of A Church Protestant", Brent A. R. Hege
Review Of "The Church Event: Call And Challenge Of A Church Protestant", Brent A. R. Hege
Brent A. R. Hege
A review of "The Church Event: Call and Challenge of a Church Protestant" by Vitor Westhelle.
Review Of "Take My Hand: A Theological Memoir", Brent A. R. Hege
Review Of "Take My Hand: A Theological Memoir", Brent A. R. Hege
Brent A. R. Hege
A review of "Take My Hand: A Theological Memoir" by Andrew Taylor-Troutman.
Review Of Missionaries And Their Medicine, Chad M. Bauman
Review Of Missionaries And Their Medicine, Chad M. Bauman
Chad M. Bauman
A review of Missionaries And Their Medicine: A Christian Modernity for Tribal India, by David Hardiman, Manchester University Press, 2008.
Political Theology In A Postsecularist Key, Brent A. R. Hege
Political Theology In A Postsecularist Key, Brent A. R. Hege
Brent A. R. Hege
A review of Clayton Crockett, Radical Political Theology: Religion and Politics after Liberalism. Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. $50.00 216 pp. ISBN: 9780231149822